Ron Haskins Quotes (8 Quotes)

It should be something that we need to be watching carefully. You just need to make sure it's being done fairly.

Three years after a recession we're still having trouble getting into a recovery. I would have expected poverty to go down.

Black Males Left Behind. One reason for maintaining optimism is that so few serious attempts to help poor fathers have been made.

They come here ready, willing and able to work and they do it.

This is not a mistake. It was the explicit intent of Congress to expand coverage to working families. The original sin of social policy was tying Medicaid directly to welfare. Now, it's tied to working.

For the last four years, the picture, especially for low-income Americans, has gotten worse.

There are people at the bottom who are worse off. We need to do something about that.

The proposals make sense to me.